Trojan.BrowserAssistant.PS
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Type of infection
Trojan.BrowserAssistant.PS is a Trojan that allows the threat actor to show advertisements in the affected browsers. Trojan.BrowserAssistant.PS is installed as part of bundlers.
Malicious behavior
Users of affected systems may see this entry in their list of installed Programs and Features.
and these items in the Windows Startup folder:
Business remediation
How to remove Trojan.BrowserAssistant.PS with the Malwarebytes Nebula console
You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.
Nebula endpoint tasks menu
Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections page to see which threats were found.
On the Quarantine page you can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.
Home remediation
Trojan.BrowserAssistant.PS is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a Trojan that injects javascript code in targeted browsers (Edge and Firefox). The BrowserAssistant installer is signed by Realistic Media Inc. and aimed at Windows systems.